The drama was again narrowly avoided.
Monday, in Vanves, an entire family was the victim of severe carbon monoxide poisoning.
It was around 3 p.m. when the firefighters intervened at the home of this family, installed in a private pavilion on rue Marcellin-Berthelot.
A few minutes earlier, a member of this family had had the lucidity to alert the emergency services when everyone in the house began to suffer from headaches, unknowingly breathing carbon monoxide fumes.
At the origin of these gas releases: the boiler of the accommodation which a police source describes as "poorly maintained and defective".
Very quickly taken care of, the occupants of the accommodation – a couple, their 21-year-old son and their 18-year-old daughter – were transported to Saint-Joseph hospital and Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches.
Although their condition did not raise any particular concern, they were placed in a hyperbaric chamber in order to re-oxygenate the organisms.
“Carbon monoxide poisoning remains frequent, insist the authorities who recall the importance of boiler maintenance.
Even in small amounts, this gas can be deadly.
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A gas with sometimes tragic consequences
In mid-October, eight people who were in an apartment in Asnières, located on the 3rd floor of a building, rue du Révérend-Père-Christian-Gilbert, had already been victims of intoxication after having made a brazier in order to warm up.
The whole family, including two five-month-old babies and a 3-year-old child, had been slightly affected, but a 42-year-old woman had been placed in a hyperbaric chamber.
The outcome is sometimes more tragic.
A carbon monoxide leak following a heating problem is indeed the cause of the death of a couple of police officers from Yvelines, found last weekend at their holiday resort in Vienne.
